funicity

Meaning

Noun

• An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.
• The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.

Origin

• from the name of Ireneo Funes, a character who lost his ability to forget, in Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes the Memorious (Funes el memorioso, 1942). See -ic, -ity.